Re: Trying to build a hash from a string...

The split regex I was trying to use was '":\ ', so my code looked something like this:
%info = split (/(":\ )/, $info);

Looks like a refresher on split (perldoc -f split, for example) is in order along with a review of regex construction: escaping a literal space, "/\ /", makes no sense.

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Re^2: Trying to build a hash from a string... by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Nov 09, 2013 at 17:12 UTC
... escaping a literal space, "/\ /", makes no sense. It's pointless in this case, but it does no harm. `%info = split (/(":\ )/, $info);` However, putting the split pattern into a capture group `/(":\ )/` causes the separator sub-strings to be returned along with the stuff one might possibly want, resulting, in this case, in a bunch of extraneous (Update: and confounding) `'": '` thingies in the output list.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Trying to build a hash from a string...
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Nov 09, 2013 at 17:12 UTC

... escaping a literal space, "/\ /", makes no sense.

It's pointless in this case, but it does no harm.

%info = split (/(":\ )/, $info);

However, putting the split pattern into a capture group /(":\ )/ causes the separator sub-strings to be returned along with the stuff one might possibly want, resulting, in this case, in a bunch of extraneous (Update: and confounding) '": ' thingies in the output list.

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